Nina
Bawden
Carrie's
War
Albert,
Carrie
and
young
Nick
are
war-time
evacuees
whose
lives
get
so
tangled
up
with
the
people
they've
come
to
live
among
that
the
war
and
their
real
families
seem
to
belong
to
another
world.
Carrie
and
Nick
are
billeted
in
Wales
with
old
Mr
Evans,
who
is
so
mean
and
cold,
and
his
timid
mouse
of
a
sister,
Lou,
who
suddenly
starts
having
secrets.
Their
friend
Albert
is
luckier,
living
in
Druid's
Bottom
with
warm-hearted
Hepzibah
Green
and
the
strange
Mister
Johnny,
who
can
talk
to
animals
but
not
to
human
beings.
Carrie
and
Nick
visit
him
there
whenever
they
can
for
Hepzibah
makes
life
exciting
and
enticing
with
her
stories
and
delicious
cooking.
Gradually
they
begin
to
feel
more
at
ease
in
their
war-time
home,
but
then,
in
trying
to
heal
the
rift
between
Mr
Evans
and
his
estranged
sister,
and
save
Druid's
Bottom,
Carrie
does
a
terrible
thing
which
is
to
haunt
her
for
years
to
come.
Carrie
revisits
Wales
as
an
adult
and
tells
the
story
to
her
own
children.
Book
is
used-
but
in
Good
Condition
-
v
minor
cover
wear